Sorry this took so long to finish. But it's done now, so here we go! The
second-to-last chapter, and the death of Snively!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and Rouge does have most of the jewels you listed,
except the Dragonballs, which don't exist. And remember, do not feel sorry
for Snively, even for a moment. He's had this coming for a long time.
Disclaimer: I'm not going through this again.
Day X, 11:15 PM
In the pyramid, Snively and Scales examined the computer display. Well, Snively examined the display, Scales just stood there, bored. Snively frowned. He was looking at a sensor map of the ARK. The sensors showed two blinking lights at different parts of the colony. Snively tapped his chin. "Hmmm. This is odd." After a moment, he started grinning evilly. "Did they really think they could fool me with a fake Super Emerald?" he said. Scales started for the teleporter. Snively held up a hand. "No Scales, I should be the one who tells them this is the end." Scales shrugged and backed off. Snively got into his walker and drove it over to the teleporter pad. Before stepping on, he turned to Scales. "Now Scales, you're my last resort. If anything should happen to me, it's all up to you." "Of course, Master." Said Scales. Snively laughed inwardly. Poor, stupid lizard. She had no idea that when this was all over, she was going straight to the roboticizer, and the bat as well. Rouge insulted him, and would pay the price. Scales disobeyed an order, and would pay the price for that as well. He strode into the teleporter and was sent to the ARK. Scales waited a moment, then reactivated the teleporter and stepped in, also going up to the colony.
Stage 12: Cosmic Wall. Mission: Get and confront the trespassers.
Snively was on a platform in space. He had to cross a dangerous expanse to reach the docking bay, where his sensors had indicated most of the intruders were. He already had formulated a plan that would rid him of his long-time foes once and for all, but he had to get there first. He walked forward and on to a catwalk, turning left and reaching its end. There was another catwalk right above him. Some holographic arrows pointed up. Due to lower gravity in certain sections of the area, it was actually possible for him to hover upwards instead of doing a gradual descent. He hovered up to the next catwalk, blocking an Artificial Chaos as it shot at him with lasers. He kept going, turning right and walking a while before he came to another high catwalk. He hovered up to it, blasting the three Hornets waiting for him, and kept walking. He turned left and hovered to another catwalk, then walked straight forward, blasting a group of Hawks that swooped down at him. Noticing some floating blobs of Artificial Chaos all around, Snively locked onto and blasted the harmless machines. He hovered up to another catwalk, turned right, walked a little bit and hovered up to another one, turning left and going up again. He walked down the catwalk and turned right, seeing the higher catwalk had an Artificial Chaos clinging to the underside. He destroyed it and hovered up to the catwalk, blasting the Artificial Chaos floating around the area. He walked forward and left, passing a large falling weight. He killed some more Artificial Chaos and turned right, hovering up to another catwalk. He turned left and hovered up to another catwalk, walking down it and blasting lots of enemies, before reaching a catwalk that didn't have a higher one anywhere around. Snively looked to his right and saw a platform with a pyramid on it. He blasted the pyramid to pieces, revealing a spring. He hovered to the platform and bounced off the spring, landing on another platform. He saw arrows pointing up indicating he could hover, and used his jets to get to the next platform. He looked up and saw several more platforms. He sighed and slowly started hovering up the platforms one by one, eventually reaching a ledge with a pyramid on it. He blew up the pyramid, revealing a passage inside. He walked in and saw he was at the bottom of an enormous shaft filled with platforms at various heights. He growled and grabbed the pulley he saw in the middle of the room, after blasting the two Artificial Chaos guarding it. He was elevated to a platform with a spring. He bounced off the spring and landed on a platform with another spring. He bounced from there to another platform, this one with a pulley. He used the pulley to go up to another platform with a spring. He bounced on it and was propelled in between two platforms on opposite sides, each of which had a pyramid on it. He hovered and spun around, blasting either pyramid until they exploded, then landed on the one with a spring on it. She bounced from the spring and landed on a thin wall at the top of the shaft. He groaned when he saw that he now had to go down another shaft. Rather than bother with the platforms, Snively jumped straight off and started hovering down, blasting every Beetle and Hawk he saw, eventually landing on the floor. Guarding the exit door were two Artificial Chaos. Snively destroyed them and went through the door behind them. He was in a small room with a short hall that had weird lights around it. Snively went through the door. The section of ground he was standing on suddenly moved! He was clearly on some sort of monorail, as was evident by the fact that he was on a platform moving along a rail. The platform moved fairly fast, taking him through a field of asteroids. There were a lot of enemies in the area, Hawks, Beetles, Hornets, Artificial Chaos, and these laser-firing cylinders on platforms lining the track. Suddenly realizing this was like a shooting gallery, Snively started spinning wildly, locking on and firing at everything that moved, destroying dozens and dozens of machines. (I loved this part of Cosmic Wall. ^______^.) After having loads of fun, the monorail went towards the wall of the colony, stopping inside a small corridor and letting Snively off. He exited the room and was attacked by two Artificial Chaos. He quickly killed them and found he was at the bottom of another shaft. Grumbling, he slowly worked his way up, bouncing off springs on platforms, hovering, blasting pyramids, using pulleys and destroying enemies. He got to the top of the shaft, blasted a floating Artificial Chaos, and hovered down quickly through the next shaft, blasting every enemy in sight. He landed at the bottom of the shaft and went through the door there, exiting into space again. He walked down the catwalk he was on and dropped to another one, blasting an Artificial Chaos that appeared behind him. He walked down the catwalk, turning right and hovering to another one. He went straight ahead and hovered to a platform on his left, and hovered from there to a catwalk on his right. He followed the catwalk as it went right, then left, hovering to another platform and hovering from there to a catwalk on his left, destroying a Hornet that was taking aim. He proceeded in this fashion for a while until he reached a falling weight. He walked around the weight and kept going, turning left and hovering up. He went straight on the next catwalk, hovering to the next one on his left. He walked down it and hovered to another one on his right. He went down and hovered up to a platform and kept going up and around another long series of catwalks and platforms before coming to a spring aiming up on a platform. He bounced off the spring and up into a shaft. He landed on a platform with a Hawk next to him. He blew up the Hawk and hovered across the shaft to a platform with a pulley on it. He grabbed the pulley and was lifted up the shaft, allowing him to blast lots of Beetles. He let go of the pulley and hovered to a platform with a pyramid on it, blasting the structure to pieces just before he landed on it. He saw another platform with a pyramid and blasted it apart, then hovered over to it. The pyramid had covered a spring, which the evil doctor now used to bounce to a higher platform with an Artificial Chaos on it. He destroyed the machine and hovered to another platform across the shaft. He bounced from a spring on that platform and flew through the air, grabbing a pulley and getting lifted to a higher platform with a pyramid. Snively blasted the pyramid apart and landed on the platform. He hovered to another platform on his right and used the spring there to land on the wall separating his shaft from the next one. After killing a floating blob of Artificial Chaos, Snively started down the shaft, hovering and blasting every robot in sight. He landed at the bottom of the shaft and killed a pair of Artificial Chaos before going through the door and entering a small room with another small hall with weird lights like before. He stepped through the hallway and readied his trigger finger as he was rushed out into space on the monorail. He started blasting things, every thing that he saw move out of the corner of his eye, be it asteroid, robot, or cannon. The ride was much longer than the last one and had more targets, giving Snively more fun and shooting practice. After a few minutes of riding around and shooting, the monorail took Snively through a passage between two walls with several cannons attached tot hem. He kept shooting as the cannons fired their lasers, blowing up the offending machines, and finally pulled in to a big hexagonal tunnel. He heard a whirring noise behind him. He turned around, and saw that a huge drilling machine had been lowered into the tunnel and was now chasing him, intending to kill him! The machine was a big hexagonal wall with a rotating disc on the front. The disc had six small drills surrounding a huge central drill. Snively frantically fired at the drill, eventually blasting off a drill and knocking the thing back. It started inching closer. The scientist kept firing, occasionally knocking off drills and slowing the machine for a moment. Finally, he blew off the big drill and the whole thing exploded. The monorail exited the tunnel and came to an abrupt halt, flinging Snively off the end of the rail and sending him crashing down to a catwalk. He quickly engaged his hover jets and landed safely. He saw the Goal Ring and entrance back to the colony in an alcove up ahead. He walked through the Goal Ring, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Snively went into the colony and quickly got to the docking bay. Robotnik saw him immediately and tried to get Eggchao, Devil and the egg into the shuttle but Snively fired a shot at their feet with his gun, stopping them. The mad doctor came over and leaned his walker down, only inches from Robotnik's face. He leveled his gun, pointing it in the fat man's face. "Tell me where Shadow is if you value your life, old man!" "He's-he's heading for the control room!" Robotnik stammered, frightened. Suddenly, the communicator Robotnik was holding came on. Shadow spoke. "Doctor, I've made it to the control room. What do I do now?" Snively snatched the communicator from Robotnik's grasp. "Come on doc, talk me through this." Snively raised the communicator to his mouth. "Hello? Doctor Robotnik? Can you hear me?" "Oh, I can hear you loud and clear, Shadow." Snively said into the communicator. Shadow gasped on the other end. "Snively! What have you done with Robotnik?" Snively giggled malevolently. "Nothing, yet. If you want to save the dear doctor, the egg, and the Chao from certain death, meet me at observation deck B. I'm sure you can get there with the map that the doctor must have provided you." Shadow said nothing for a moment, then, "Yes, I can get there." "Good! You have five minutes. Get here too late, and the doctor, the Chao, and the egg die. Tata!" Snively cut off the line. He leered at the frightened human and Chao. He pointed to the door with his gun. "Well, get a move on! We've got to meet your dear hedgehog before he gets there. Come on!" Snively herded them out of the room.
Day X, 11:35 PM
The door opened, Shadow entering the observation deck, the door closing behind him. He was in a large round room with half of the walls covered in big picture windows. The floor was split by a metal cross of sorts, with most of the floor being made of unbreakable glass, giving a person an unobstructed view of the Earth from space. Amy and Angel were in the walker right next to the door. Amy smiled a little as he walked next to them. Shadow smiled back. At the other end of the room, Snively sat in the Snivel Walker, his gun pointed towards Robotnik. A very worried Eggchao clutched his master's leg. Devil held on tightly to his egg, looking a little scared. Snively sneered and waved the gun a little, starting his little performance. "Ah, Shadow, you're right on time. A few seconds later and I would have put a bullet through the old man's head." "What do you want, Snively?" asked Shadow. "I know you have the Super Emerald. Come over here and give it to me, and I will let your friends go." Snively said, reaching his free hand out. Shadow kept his expression calm. He pulled out the Emerald and started walking across the room. "I'm coming Snively. Just don't hurt the doctor or the deal's off." "I won't hurt him, Shadow. However, I expect you not to play any tricks, or the doctor gets a new breathing hole." Snively said evilly. Robotnik gulped. Snively cackled inwardly. Shadow had no idea what would happen when he got to the center of the room. While he had been waiting for Shadow to show up, he had quickly initiated a program that none of the other people in the room knew about. One that would spell the end of Shadow. Shadow walked over the center of the room, where the intersection of the cross was. Suddenly, a glass tube with a weird gadget inside the top shot down from the ceiling, trapping him! He blinked, surprised. "What is this Snively, a roboticizer? You've already tried this on me! We both know that my genetic code is too complex to be converted into digital code." Snively laughed. "Roboticizer? Oh, this no roboticizer Shadow! This is your end!" He snickered, shaking his head. "Did you really think you could fool me with that fake Emerald?" Amy and Shadow both masterfully hid their astonishment. "What are you talking about? This here's the real Emerald!" Shadow said. "Yeah, there's no fake Emerald here." Said Amy. Snively grinned, eager to lecture them on how he had figured out their trick. "You underestimate me, again. While I was unable to get the security cameras back up, I was able to repair most of the sensors strewn throughout the colony. When you got here, my sensors picked up two readings of Chaos energy in the colony apart from the six in the control room. Since there are only seven Super Emeralds and both energy signatures matched that of a Super Emerald, I easily determined that one was a fake. And since one signature was heading to the control room while one was heading for a power generator, that showed the one heading for the control room was the fake, since there would be no reason for you to head for the control room carrying the real Emerald. Simple logic, my opponents, and overconfidence is what has cost you victory!" He laughed a bit, proud to show he wasn't as stupid as he sometimes appeared, then continued. "And now, to finally rid myself of that which has been a thorn in my side for all these years! That capsule you are trapped in is none other than an escape pod, Shadow! It's rigged to explode when it leaves the atmospheric hemisphere of the colony. Since you only carry a fake Super Emerald, and since I know from the past that you can't use Chaos Control with a Super Emerald, there is no way to escape! And even if you somehow manage to survive the explosion, the explosive decompression of outer space will finish the job! Ahahahahahaha! So," he said, leering down at the black hedgehog. "Do you have any last words to say?" Shadow paused. "Yes, yes I do." "Well go ahead, say your good-byes. You're not going to be seeing any of these people ever again, you know." Said Snively as he put away the gun and lounged back in his seat. He didn't really care what Shadow said, it didn't matter. They were all going to see each other on the other side, to tell the truth. Shadow took a deep breath and looked at Robotnik. "Doctor." He hesitated, a pained look on his face. "Doctor, I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years. You pulled me from that cryogenic capsule, healed me and tried to fix my forgotten memory. You were the one who inspired me the most to start fighting against evil, beginning when Snively first betrayed you. After that, I kept feeling like we were getting closer. You helped introduce me to Amy, and encouraged our first date which ended up in the relationship we have now." He paused, then continued, looking very sad. "I just want to say that I have always thought of you as my father." Robotnik sniffed, tears forming underneath his dark glasses. "Shadow.my son." he whispered to himself. Snively sneered, disgusted. Shadow turned to see Devil. "Devil, you've been my Chao for as long as I can remember. We've been friends for a long time, haven't we?" Devil nodded slowly. "When you evolved to the Chaos level, I was so proud that my Chao was one of the few to ever reach this level, one of the best. I was just as proud when you got your black belt in Chao karate, and won the grand prize at the Chao races." Shadow managed a smile. "But none of that amounts to how proud I am of you now, standing there with an egg, a father. I admit being a little envious that you got to this with Angel before I could with Amy, but I'm still proud of what you've managed to do." He looked at his feet for a moment. "Devil, I want you to promise me something. Take good care of the baby, will you? Enjoy fatherhood, and making a family. I know I never will." Devil stood stock still, eyes watering up. Snively had to resist an urge to gag at the sappy display. He hated Chao. Slowly, finally, Shadow turned to face Amy. Snively grunted quietly, knowing he had to let them go through with this pathetic display of passion, though he wished he could just shoot them all and be done with it. He had a feeling this would be the sappiest of all Shadow's farewells. He was right. "Amy.what can I say? Nothing, except that I'm sorry." "S-sorry for what?" Amy asked, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry for not being able to fulfill my promise to you. I am sorry that neither of us will get to experience the wedded bliss we have been hoping for all these years." He shook his head, reminiscing a little. "You know, when I was first introduced to you, when Robotnik told me Big had created a possible mate for me, I was apprehensive. I didn't want something artificial, something that was a female copy of me. But it turned out you were more than I had ever expected. When we had our first adventure together, when Snively tried to launch the Death Snivel for the first time, you showed incredible skill and prowess. I was starting to like you then. But when he tried to launch it for the third time, with the power of the Master Emerald, we had to use the Chaos and Super Emeralds to transform. Remember that Amy? How we destroyed the ship and Snively's robot weapon together? I think after that is when I first realized how I felt. When I first realized that I loved you." "Shadow." Amy whispered, inaudibly. Shadow looked deep into her eyes. "I love you, Amy. There is nothing more I have to say." Snively snorted loudly, not wanting to hear another word of this romantic blather. "How revolting. Are you quite done with your sappy speeches and farewells?" Shadow turned around and glared at his enemy. "Yes, I'm done." "Good!" Snively whipped out his gun and fired three shots to his right before anyone could move. The first bullet hit Robotnik in the stomach, rupturing his liver. He gasped in pain and fell over, blood welling up from the hole in his red jacket. The second bullet struck Eggchao between the eyes, ripping a hole through his head. He was dead before he hit the ground. The third and final bullet hit the Chao egg, shattering it and killing the Chao embryo inside. Devil screeched in shock as the pieces of his unborn offspring clattered to the floor. Damn, I missed the old man's heart! Snively thought to himself, a little disappointed. As Shadow, Amy, Angel and Devil looked at Snively in horror, the villain quickly recovered from his momentary disappointment and slammed a button on his control panel. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" he yelled as the pod rumbled and was ejected through a hatch that opened and quickly closed in the floor. The capsule could be seen hurtling away from the colony. It reached a certain point and exploded into a million pieces. Devil screamed and ran up to a picture window, pressing his face against the glass and crying. Amy looked out the window in disbelief as the explosion faded and the remaining debris tumbled through space. Shadow was gone, his worst enemy dead after all these years and failures. Snively laughed maniacally. "At last! AT LAST! After all these years, I've finally done it! Shadow the Hedgehog is dead! Ahahahahahahaha! The old man isn't dead yet, but will be soon! His pathetic little pet is dead, and that runt of an egg is destroyed as well! All I have to do now is eliminate you, the echidna, the bat and the lizard and all my enemies will be gone forever! Ahahahahahahaha!" He smirked. His eyes had a terrifying insane gleam in them. "Now Amy, be a good girl and hand over the Super Emerald. I promise to kill you immediately if you do so, sparing you the agony of the slow death I have planned otherwise." He was lying of course, either way he would force-feed her to the roboticizer. That or torture her to death, he hadn't made up his mind yet. He knew he would have to do something unbelievably and needlessly cruel to the Chao, but he wasn't sure what just yet. Angel started crying. How pathetic. Amy stared at him for a few seconds, mouth open, tears streaming from her eyes. "You.you.you MONSTER! YOU'VE KILLED MY CHAO'S BABY! YOU'VE KILLED EGGCHAO! YOU'VE KILLED THE ONLY PERSON I'VE EVER LOVED! IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO HAND OVER THE EMERALD, YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING, BASTARD!" Snively was a little taken aback. He lost it. "You dare talk to me that way?! I am Snively, Emperor of the World! Forget mercy, I'll kill you now!" He put away the gun and readied his walker for combat. "I'm going to do what Shadow never managed to do, and kill you once and for all! This is for Shadow, Snively. DIE!!!!" Tears streaking down their cheeks, Amy and Angel charged towards Snively, both of them fueled by anger beyond belief, one for the loss of her child, one for the loss of her lover.
AMY
Amy smashed into Snively, sending the walker a few steps backwards. She ran forward and started hitting him over and over again with the Passion's hammer, damaging it with each hit. Snively activated his boxing glove, delivering a punch strong enough to knock the Passion back quite a bit. Snively had souped up his walker since their last fight in anticipation of another battle. Snively locked on to Amy and fired, causing damage. Amy ran forward again, firing repeatedly from her cannon while Angel locked on to Snively and fired laser blast after laser blast, each hitting Snively and causing more and more damage. She got really close to Snively and fired the hammer, cannon, and laser all at once, exploding between the two walkers and damaging them both. Snively tried to punch Amy. She responded by immediately blasting the boxing glove, destroying it. Snively started getting more aggressive, running around the room and firing laser blasts at Amy. To avoid the lock on laser, she jumped and hovered in the air, over the range for his laser targeting. He jumped into the air as well, hovering, locking on, and firing a blast at her. Amy fell to the floor, her hovering system temporarily disrupted. Snively stayed in the air and fired multiple blasts from his cannon, a few of which hit Amy as she ran around the room. Snively landed and ran towards her, trying to lock on. Angel tried to lock on to the tyrant, but he jumped and hovered again, shooting more precise cannon blasts. The Passion shook a bit. Amy punched a button on her console. Small hatches opened on her legs. Rockets fired out of the holes, streaming towards Snively. Surprised, he couldn't move away in time and was hit by the dozen explosives. His walker shook terribly. "Wh- where did you get that rocket launcher?!" he shouted. "You stole the weapons in the shuttle, didn't you? Well, if you think they're going to help you, you're wro-" While Snively had been talking, Angel and Amy had both fired their weapons at him, causing more damage. Snively wobbled as the walker shook. "Okay, that does it!" Snively activated his own Rocket Launcher, firing the missiles at Amy. Amy ran right towards Snively, the missiles exploding around and sometimes on her, ramming into Snively and hitting him with her hammer. Snively fired his cannon at extremely close range, damaging both of the walkers. Amy shook it off and started whacking him again with her hammer. Snively locked on and fired at close range. Angel did the same exact thing and both walkers trembled and stepped back, damaged. Snively ran across the room, zigzagging to avoid the shots fired at him. He turned around and pressed another button on his console. The lens on the front of his vehicle started glowing. Amy knew what this meant and started to run out of Snively's line of fire. The evil scientist fired his Power Laser, sweeping the enormous beam towards Amy. As the laser was about to hit her, Amy jumped and hovered over the beam, going towards Snively. She landed right behind him and started whacking him with her hammer before he could turn around and hit her with the Power Laser. When he did turn around, she just hovered over him and kept whacking away with the hammer. Finally, the laser was cut off. Snively shot his cannon, knocking Amy back and damaging both walkers. Amy had enough of playing around. She pressed another button on her walker as Snively locked on and fired a few laser blasts. The jet intake on the front of the Passion on the front of the nozzle started to glow. Snively's eyes widened in surprise. He tried to get out of the way, but was too late. The Power Laser fired, hitting Snively. The massive laser sliced through his defenses, causing massive damage to the Snivel Walker. He screamed and pulled out of the beam, somehow still active! It seemed he had really done a number on the walker to make it strong enough to resist the Power Laser. He used the same strategy Amy had, jumping and hovering over the laser and trying to get behind Amy. However, as he had started to land, Amy spun the Passion around, giving him another dose of the Power Laser at close range. He tried to get away, but since he was already so close, she just kept turning to keep him in the full focus of the beam. Finally, she cut the beam off. Snively's walker creaked and moaned. Smoke was starting to seep from some of the joints. Snively hacked on the smoke, growled, and charged forward, slamming into the Passion. They both fired their cannons and laser blasters at close range, damaging the conditions of their respective vehicles even further. As Snively frantically tried to fire again, Amy and Angel fired all their long-range weapons at once, the cannon, the Laser Blaster, the Rocket Launcher, and the Power Laser. The four attacks hit Snively for incredible damage. His walker quaked and fell to the ground, smoking. Amy and Angel were triumphant, but it seemed to be a hollow victory. Amy looked down, still crying. "Shadow, I did it." she whispered. Angel suddenly yelped, trying to get Amy's attention. Amy looked up and saw the Snivel Walker was on its feet again! "What? No! I beat you!" Snively laughed, glad his recent upgrade had worked. "Wrong! As you saw before, I've upgraded my walker! Aside from being stronger, I reinforced the armor with titanium! Those attacks of yours hurt a great deal, but not enough to destroy the Snivel Walker!" He pulled out his gun and fired a very precise bullet at the knee joint of the Passion's left leg. Already damaged enough by the battle, the Passion buckled and fell over, the right leg shorting out. Snively came closer, looming over Amy, who had fallen out of her cockpit. He chuckled and brought his gun to bear. "Well Amy, it seems history has repeated itself. You've lost, like you did back on Prison Island. It seems you are destined to fail, my dear." A smile creeped onto his lips. He had been waiting to do this for a long, LONG time. "This time, nothing is going to stop me from killing you. Say hi to your boyfriend for me when you get to the other side, okay?" His finger tightened on the trigger. There was one thing he hadn't counted on, though. Angel was still sitting behind the Laser Blaster. Despite the weird angle she was at, she had locked on to Snively's gun while he had been talking. As he was about to fire, Angel shot a laser blast, striking the gun and causing it to explode right in Snively's hand. He screamed and clutched his right hand, now burnt and blackened beyond recovery, another body part lost to him. However, this time he would not get a chance to replace it with a robotic appendage. Amy stood up, pulling the Piko Piko Hammer from the dimensional pocket. Screaming out a battlecry, she smashed her hammer into the Snivel Walker's left leg. The force of her blow smashed through the reinforced armor and completely destroyed the joints and servos, severing the lower left leg from the rest of the body. Snively wailed as the vehicle toppled over, causing him to fall from his seat. As he grunted and got up, he saw Amy looming over him. She swung the hammer down at him. Snively tried to block it with his metal arm. The powerful blow from Amy's hammer broke the robot arm, severing it at the elbow. It fell to the floor, useless. He gaped. Amy cried out and used her Hammer Whirl, smashing into Snively's chest and sent him hurtling into a wall, breaking his artificial ribs. He yelled in pain. He had never actually been hurt directly in a battle with Shadow or the others; the only damage was caused when his final vehicle blew up, costing him a body part. Amy slowly walked over to him, holding the hammer tightly. Snively looked up, trembling, as the pink hedgehog stood over him. "M-mercy, please." he managed to say, terrified. "Mercy?" she asked coldly. "When have you ever showed mercy, Snively? To your victims, to my friends and me? To Shadow? No, you deserve no mercy, tyrant. And so I will show you none in return." She raised her hammer high. "I promised never to kill a human. I think for you, I'll make an exception." Snively tried to scurry away, but she planted a foot on his chest to hold him down. He met her eyes. There was rage and hatred in them. It terrified him. She brought the hammer down in the most powerful smash she had ever performed. Blood sprayed onto her dress, making it a little redder than before. She dropped the hammer, now soaked with Snively's blood, and walked over to the windows, staring at where the escape pod had exploded. She fell to her knees and began sobbing. Angel fell out of the Laser Blaster seat and limped over to Robotnik, who wasn't dead just yet. She climbed onto his chest and placed her hands around the wound, concentrating. As her healing magic began, the bullet levitated out of the hole, dropping onto the floor. The hole started to seal up. Angel let go, panting, as the wound was sealed up, his liver rapidly healing. Robotnik would be up soon, and able to mourn with the rest of them. Angel got off of Robotnik's chest and limped over to her love, who was still pressed against the window. She touched his shoulder. Devil slowly turned around, his wet eyes staring into her own. They broke down and hugged each other, tears falling to the ground.
And so ends the life of Dr. Snively, a man who will most certainly not be missed. Tune in next time, for the final chapter of the Dark Story.
Day X, 11:15 PM
In the pyramid, Snively and Scales examined the computer display. Well, Snively examined the display, Scales just stood there, bored. Snively frowned. He was looking at a sensor map of the ARK. The sensors showed two blinking lights at different parts of the colony. Snively tapped his chin. "Hmmm. This is odd." After a moment, he started grinning evilly. "Did they really think they could fool me with a fake Super Emerald?" he said. Scales started for the teleporter. Snively held up a hand. "No Scales, I should be the one who tells them this is the end." Scales shrugged and backed off. Snively got into his walker and drove it over to the teleporter pad. Before stepping on, he turned to Scales. "Now Scales, you're my last resort. If anything should happen to me, it's all up to you." "Of course, Master." Said Scales. Snively laughed inwardly. Poor, stupid lizard. She had no idea that when this was all over, she was going straight to the roboticizer, and the bat as well. Rouge insulted him, and would pay the price. Scales disobeyed an order, and would pay the price for that as well. He strode into the teleporter and was sent to the ARK. Scales waited a moment, then reactivated the teleporter and stepped in, also going up to the colony.
Stage 12: Cosmic Wall. Mission: Get and confront the trespassers.
Snively was on a platform in space. He had to cross a dangerous expanse to reach the docking bay, where his sensors had indicated most of the intruders were. He already had formulated a plan that would rid him of his long-time foes once and for all, but he had to get there first. He walked forward and on to a catwalk, turning left and reaching its end. There was another catwalk right above him. Some holographic arrows pointed up. Due to lower gravity in certain sections of the area, it was actually possible for him to hover upwards instead of doing a gradual descent. He hovered up to the next catwalk, blocking an Artificial Chaos as it shot at him with lasers. He kept going, turning right and walking a while before he came to another high catwalk. He hovered up to it, blasting the three Hornets waiting for him, and kept walking. He turned left and hovered to another catwalk, then walked straight forward, blasting a group of Hawks that swooped down at him. Noticing some floating blobs of Artificial Chaos all around, Snively locked onto and blasted the harmless machines. He hovered up to another catwalk, turned right, walked a little bit and hovered up to another one, turning left and going up again. He walked down the catwalk and turned right, seeing the higher catwalk had an Artificial Chaos clinging to the underside. He destroyed it and hovered up to the catwalk, blasting the Artificial Chaos floating around the area. He walked forward and left, passing a large falling weight. He killed some more Artificial Chaos and turned right, hovering up to another catwalk. He turned left and hovered up to another catwalk, walking down it and blasting lots of enemies, before reaching a catwalk that didn't have a higher one anywhere around. Snively looked to his right and saw a platform with a pyramid on it. He blasted the pyramid to pieces, revealing a spring. He hovered to the platform and bounced off the spring, landing on another platform. He saw arrows pointing up indicating he could hover, and used his jets to get to the next platform. He looked up and saw several more platforms. He sighed and slowly started hovering up the platforms one by one, eventually reaching a ledge with a pyramid on it. He blew up the pyramid, revealing a passage inside. He walked in and saw he was at the bottom of an enormous shaft filled with platforms at various heights. He growled and grabbed the pulley he saw in the middle of the room, after blasting the two Artificial Chaos guarding it. He was elevated to a platform with a spring. He bounced off the spring and landed on a platform with another spring. He bounced from there to another platform, this one with a pulley. He used the pulley to go up to another platform with a spring. He bounced on it and was propelled in between two platforms on opposite sides, each of which had a pyramid on it. He hovered and spun around, blasting either pyramid until they exploded, then landed on the one with a spring on it. She bounced from the spring and landed on a thin wall at the top of the shaft. He groaned when he saw that he now had to go down another shaft. Rather than bother with the platforms, Snively jumped straight off and started hovering down, blasting every Beetle and Hawk he saw, eventually landing on the floor. Guarding the exit door were two Artificial Chaos. Snively destroyed them and went through the door behind them. He was in a small room with a short hall that had weird lights around it. Snively went through the door. The section of ground he was standing on suddenly moved! He was clearly on some sort of monorail, as was evident by the fact that he was on a platform moving along a rail. The platform moved fairly fast, taking him through a field of asteroids. There were a lot of enemies in the area, Hawks, Beetles, Hornets, Artificial Chaos, and these laser-firing cylinders on platforms lining the track. Suddenly realizing this was like a shooting gallery, Snively started spinning wildly, locking on and firing at everything that moved, destroying dozens and dozens of machines. (I loved this part of Cosmic Wall. ^______^.) After having loads of fun, the monorail went towards the wall of the colony, stopping inside a small corridor and letting Snively off. He exited the room and was attacked by two Artificial Chaos. He quickly killed them and found he was at the bottom of another shaft. Grumbling, he slowly worked his way up, bouncing off springs on platforms, hovering, blasting pyramids, using pulleys and destroying enemies. He got to the top of the shaft, blasted a floating Artificial Chaos, and hovered down quickly through the next shaft, blasting every enemy in sight. He landed at the bottom of the shaft and went through the door there, exiting into space again. He walked down the catwalk he was on and dropped to another one, blasting an Artificial Chaos that appeared behind him. He walked down the catwalk, turning right and hovering to another one. He went straight ahead and hovered to a platform on his left, and hovered from there to a catwalk on his right. He followed the catwalk as it went right, then left, hovering to another platform and hovering from there to a catwalk on his left, destroying a Hornet that was taking aim. He proceeded in this fashion for a while until he reached a falling weight. He walked around the weight and kept going, turning left and hovering up. He went straight on the next catwalk, hovering to the next one on his left. He walked down it and hovered to another one on his right. He went down and hovered up to a platform and kept going up and around another long series of catwalks and platforms before coming to a spring aiming up on a platform. He bounced off the spring and up into a shaft. He landed on a platform with a Hawk next to him. He blew up the Hawk and hovered across the shaft to a platform with a pulley on it. He grabbed the pulley and was lifted up the shaft, allowing him to blast lots of Beetles. He let go of the pulley and hovered to a platform with a pyramid on it, blasting the structure to pieces just before he landed on it. He saw another platform with a pyramid and blasted it apart, then hovered over to it. The pyramid had covered a spring, which the evil doctor now used to bounce to a higher platform with an Artificial Chaos on it. He destroyed the machine and hovered to another platform across the shaft. He bounced from a spring on that platform and flew through the air, grabbing a pulley and getting lifted to a higher platform with a pyramid. Snively blasted the pyramid apart and landed on the platform. He hovered to another platform on his right and used the spring there to land on the wall separating his shaft from the next one. After killing a floating blob of Artificial Chaos, Snively started down the shaft, hovering and blasting every robot in sight. He landed at the bottom of the shaft and killed a pair of Artificial Chaos before going through the door and entering a small room with another small hall with weird lights like before. He stepped through the hallway and readied his trigger finger as he was rushed out into space on the monorail. He started blasting things, every thing that he saw move out of the corner of his eye, be it asteroid, robot, or cannon. The ride was much longer than the last one and had more targets, giving Snively more fun and shooting practice. After a few minutes of riding around and shooting, the monorail took Snively through a passage between two walls with several cannons attached tot hem. He kept shooting as the cannons fired their lasers, blowing up the offending machines, and finally pulled in to a big hexagonal tunnel. He heard a whirring noise behind him. He turned around, and saw that a huge drilling machine had been lowered into the tunnel and was now chasing him, intending to kill him! The machine was a big hexagonal wall with a rotating disc on the front. The disc had six small drills surrounding a huge central drill. Snively frantically fired at the drill, eventually blasting off a drill and knocking the thing back. It started inching closer. The scientist kept firing, occasionally knocking off drills and slowing the machine for a moment. Finally, he blew off the big drill and the whole thing exploded. The monorail exited the tunnel and came to an abrupt halt, flinging Snively off the end of the rail and sending him crashing down to a catwalk. He quickly engaged his hover jets and landed safely. He saw the Goal Ring and entrance back to the colony in an alcove up ahead. He walked through the Goal Ring, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
Snively went into the colony and quickly got to the docking bay. Robotnik saw him immediately and tried to get Eggchao, Devil and the egg into the shuttle but Snively fired a shot at their feet with his gun, stopping them. The mad doctor came over and leaned his walker down, only inches from Robotnik's face. He leveled his gun, pointing it in the fat man's face. "Tell me where Shadow is if you value your life, old man!" "He's-he's heading for the control room!" Robotnik stammered, frightened. Suddenly, the communicator Robotnik was holding came on. Shadow spoke. "Doctor, I've made it to the control room. What do I do now?" Snively snatched the communicator from Robotnik's grasp. "Come on doc, talk me through this." Snively raised the communicator to his mouth. "Hello? Doctor Robotnik? Can you hear me?" "Oh, I can hear you loud and clear, Shadow." Snively said into the communicator. Shadow gasped on the other end. "Snively! What have you done with Robotnik?" Snively giggled malevolently. "Nothing, yet. If you want to save the dear doctor, the egg, and the Chao from certain death, meet me at observation deck B. I'm sure you can get there with the map that the doctor must have provided you." Shadow said nothing for a moment, then, "Yes, I can get there." "Good! You have five minutes. Get here too late, and the doctor, the Chao, and the egg die. Tata!" Snively cut off the line. He leered at the frightened human and Chao. He pointed to the door with his gun. "Well, get a move on! We've got to meet your dear hedgehog before he gets there. Come on!" Snively herded them out of the room.
Day X, 11:35 PM
The door opened, Shadow entering the observation deck, the door closing behind him. He was in a large round room with half of the walls covered in big picture windows. The floor was split by a metal cross of sorts, with most of the floor being made of unbreakable glass, giving a person an unobstructed view of the Earth from space. Amy and Angel were in the walker right next to the door. Amy smiled a little as he walked next to them. Shadow smiled back. At the other end of the room, Snively sat in the Snivel Walker, his gun pointed towards Robotnik. A very worried Eggchao clutched his master's leg. Devil held on tightly to his egg, looking a little scared. Snively sneered and waved the gun a little, starting his little performance. "Ah, Shadow, you're right on time. A few seconds later and I would have put a bullet through the old man's head." "What do you want, Snively?" asked Shadow. "I know you have the Super Emerald. Come over here and give it to me, and I will let your friends go." Snively said, reaching his free hand out. Shadow kept his expression calm. He pulled out the Emerald and started walking across the room. "I'm coming Snively. Just don't hurt the doctor or the deal's off." "I won't hurt him, Shadow. However, I expect you not to play any tricks, or the doctor gets a new breathing hole." Snively said evilly. Robotnik gulped. Snively cackled inwardly. Shadow had no idea what would happen when he got to the center of the room. While he had been waiting for Shadow to show up, he had quickly initiated a program that none of the other people in the room knew about. One that would spell the end of Shadow. Shadow walked over the center of the room, where the intersection of the cross was. Suddenly, a glass tube with a weird gadget inside the top shot down from the ceiling, trapping him! He blinked, surprised. "What is this Snively, a roboticizer? You've already tried this on me! We both know that my genetic code is too complex to be converted into digital code." Snively laughed. "Roboticizer? Oh, this no roboticizer Shadow! This is your end!" He snickered, shaking his head. "Did you really think you could fool me with that fake Emerald?" Amy and Shadow both masterfully hid their astonishment. "What are you talking about? This here's the real Emerald!" Shadow said. "Yeah, there's no fake Emerald here." Said Amy. Snively grinned, eager to lecture them on how he had figured out their trick. "You underestimate me, again. While I was unable to get the security cameras back up, I was able to repair most of the sensors strewn throughout the colony. When you got here, my sensors picked up two readings of Chaos energy in the colony apart from the six in the control room. Since there are only seven Super Emeralds and both energy signatures matched that of a Super Emerald, I easily determined that one was a fake. And since one signature was heading to the control room while one was heading for a power generator, that showed the one heading for the control room was the fake, since there would be no reason for you to head for the control room carrying the real Emerald. Simple logic, my opponents, and overconfidence is what has cost you victory!" He laughed a bit, proud to show he wasn't as stupid as he sometimes appeared, then continued. "And now, to finally rid myself of that which has been a thorn in my side for all these years! That capsule you are trapped in is none other than an escape pod, Shadow! It's rigged to explode when it leaves the atmospheric hemisphere of the colony. Since you only carry a fake Super Emerald, and since I know from the past that you can't use Chaos Control with a Super Emerald, there is no way to escape! And even if you somehow manage to survive the explosion, the explosive decompression of outer space will finish the job! Ahahahahahaha! So," he said, leering down at the black hedgehog. "Do you have any last words to say?" Shadow paused. "Yes, yes I do." "Well go ahead, say your good-byes. You're not going to be seeing any of these people ever again, you know." Said Snively as he put away the gun and lounged back in his seat. He didn't really care what Shadow said, it didn't matter. They were all going to see each other on the other side, to tell the truth. Shadow took a deep breath and looked at Robotnik. "Doctor." He hesitated, a pained look on his face. "Doctor, I want to thank you for everything you've done for me over the years. You pulled me from that cryogenic capsule, healed me and tried to fix my forgotten memory. You were the one who inspired me the most to start fighting against evil, beginning when Snively first betrayed you. After that, I kept feeling like we were getting closer. You helped introduce me to Amy, and encouraged our first date which ended up in the relationship we have now." He paused, then continued, looking very sad. "I just want to say that I have always thought of you as my father." Robotnik sniffed, tears forming underneath his dark glasses. "Shadow.my son." he whispered to himself. Snively sneered, disgusted. Shadow turned to see Devil. "Devil, you've been my Chao for as long as I can remember. We've been friends for a long time, haven't we?" Devil nodded slowly. "When you evolved to the Chaos level, I was so proud that my Chao was one of the few to ever reach this level, one of the best. I was just as proud when you got your black belt in Chao karate, and won the grand prize at the Chao races." Shadow managed a smile. "But none of that amounts to how proud I am of you now, standing there with an egg, a father. I admit being a little envious that you got to this with Angel before I could with Amy, but I'm still proud of what you've managed to do." He looked at his feet for a moment. "Devil, I want you to promise me something. Take good care of the baby, will you? Enjoy fatherhood, and making a family. I know I never will." Devil stood stock still, eyes watering up. Snively had to resist an urge to gag at the sappy display. He hated Chao. Slowly, finally, Shadow turned to face Amy. Snively grunted quietly, knowing he had to let them go through with this pathetic display of passion, though he wished he could just shoot them all and be done with it. He had a feeling this would be the sappiest of all Shadow's farewells. He was right. "Amy.what can I say? Nothing, except that I'm sorry." "S-sorry for what?" Amy asked, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry for not being able to fulfill my promise to you. I am sorry that neither of us will get to experience the wedded bliss we have been hoping for all these years." He shook his head, reminiscing a little. "You know, when I was first introduced to you, when Robotnik told me Big had created a possible mate for me, I was apprehensive. I didn't want something artificial, something that was a female copy of me. But it turned out you were more than I had ever expected. When we had our first adventure together, when Snively tried to launch the Death Snivel for the first time, you showed incredible skill and prowess. I was starting to like you then. But when he tried to launch it for the third time, with the power of the Master Emerald, we had to use the Chaos and Super Emeralds to transform. Remember that Amy? How we destroyed the ship and Snively's robot weapon together? I think after that is when I first realized how I felt. When I first realized that I loved you." "Shadow." Amy whispered, inaudibly. Shadow looked deep into her eyes. "I love you, Amy. There is nothing more I have to say." Snively snorted loudly, not wanting to hear another word of this romantic blather. "How revolting. Are you quite done with your sappy speeches and farewells?" Shadow turned around and glared at his enemy. "Yes, I'm done." "Good!" Snively whipped out his gun and fired three shots to his right before anyone could move. The first bullet hit Robotnik in the stomach, rupturing his liver. He gasped in pain and fell over, blood welling up from the hole in his red jacket. The second bullet struck Eggchao between the eyes, ripping a hole through his head. He was dead before he hit the ground. The third and final bullet hit the Chao egg, shattering it and killing the Chao embryo inside. Devil screeched in shock as the pieces of his unborn offspring clattered to the floor. Damn, I missed the old man's heart! Snively thought to himself, a little disappointed. As Shadow, Amy, Angel and Devil looked at Snively in horror, the villain quickly recovered from his momentary disappointment and slammed a button on his control panel. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" he yelled as the pod rumbled and was ejected through a hatch that opened and quickly closed in the floor. The capsule could be seen hurtling away from the colony. It reached a certain point and exploded into a million pieces. Devil screamed and ran up to a picture window, pressing his face against the glass and crying. Amy looked out the window in disbelief as the explosion faded and the remaining debris tumbled through space. Shadow was gone, his worst enemy dead after all these years and failures. Snively laughed maniacally. "At last! AT LAST! After all these years, I've finally done it! Shadow the Hedgehog is dead! Ahahahahahahaha! The old man isn't dead yet, but will be soon! His pathetic little pet is dead, and that runt of an egg is destroyed as well! All I have to do now is eliminate you, the echidna, the bat and the lizard and all my enemies will be gone forever! Ahahahahahahaha!" He smirked. His eyes had a terrifying insane gleam in them. "Now Amy, be a good girl and hand over the Super Emerald. I promise to kill you immediately if you do so, sparing you the agony of the slow death I have planned otherwise." He was lying of course, either way he would force-feed her to the roboticizer. That or torture her to death, he hadn't made up his mind yet. He knew he would have to do something unbelievably and needlessly cruel to the Chao, but he wasn't sure what just yet. Angel started crying. How pathetic. Amy stared at him for a few seconds, mouth open, tears streaming from her eyes. "You.you.you MONSTER! YOU'VE KILLED MY CHAO'S BABY! YOU'VE KILLED EGGCHAO! YOU'VE KILLED THE ONLY PERSON I'VE EVER LOVED! IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO HAND OVER THE EMERALD, YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING, BASTARD!" Snively was a little taken aback. He lost it. "You dare talk to me that way?! I am Snively, Emperor of the World! Forget mercy, I'll kill you now!" He put away the gun and readied his walker for combat. "I'm going to do what Shadow never managed to do, and kill you once and for all! This is for Shadow, Snively. DIE!!!!" Tears streaking down their cheeks, Amy and Angel charged towards Snively, both of them fueled by anger beyond belief, one for the loss of her child, one for the loss of her lover.
AMY
Amy smashed into Snively, sending the walker a few steps backwards. She ran forward and started hitting him over and over again with the Passion's hammer, damaging it with each hit. Snively activated his boxing glove, delivering a punch strong enough to knock the Passion back quite a bit. Snively had souped up his walker since their last fight in anticipation of another battle. Snively locked on to Amy and fired, causing damage. Amy ran forward again, firing repeatedly from her cannon while Angel locked on to Snively and fired laser blast after laser blast, each hitting Snively and causing more and more damage. She got really close to Snively and fired the hammer, cannon, and laser all at once, exploding between the two walkers and damaging them both. Snively tried to punch Amy. She responded by immediately blasting the boxing glove, destroying it. Snively started getting more aggressive, running around the room and firing laser blasts at Amy. To avoid the lock on laser, she jumped and hovered in the air, over the range for his laser targeting. He jumped into the air as well, hovering, locking on, and firing a blast at her. Amy fell to the floor, her hovering system temporarily disrupted. Snively stayed in the air and fired multiple blasts from his cannon, a few of which hit Amy as she ran around the room. Snively landed and ran towards her, trying to lock on. Angel tried to lock on to the tyrant, but he jumped and hovered again, shooting more precise cannon blasts. The Passion shook a bit. Amy punched a button on her console. Small hatches opened on her legs. Rockets fired out of the holes, streaming towards Snively. Surprised, he couldn't move away in time and was hit by the dozen explosives. His walker shook terribly. "Wh- where did you get that rocket launcher?!" he shouted. "You stole the weapons in the shuttle, didn't you? Well, if you think they're going to help you, you're wro-" While Snively had been talking, Angel and Amy had both fired their weapons at him, causing more damage. Snively wobbled as the walker shook. "Okay, that does it!" Snively activated his own Rocket Launcher, firing the missiles at Amy. Amy ran right towards Snively, the missiles exploding around and sometimes on her, ramming into Snively and hitting him with her hammer. Snively fired his cannon at extremely close range, damaging both of the walkers. Amy shook it off and started whacking him again with her hammer. Snively locked on and fired at close range. Angel did the same exact thing and both walkers trembled and stepped back, damaged. Snively ran across the room, zigzagging to avoid the shots fired at him. He turned around and pressed another button on his console. The lens on the front of his vehicle started glowing. Amy knew what this meant and started to run out of Snively's line of fire. The evil scientist fired his Power Laser, sweeping the enormous beam towards Amy. As the laser was about to hit her, Amy jumped and hovered over the beam, going towards Snively. She landed right behind him and started whacking him with her hammer before he could turn around and hit her with the Power Laser. When he did turn around, she just hovered over him and kept whacking away with the hammer. Finally, the laser was cut off. Snively shot his cannon, knocking Amy back and damaging both walkers. Amy had enough of playing around. She pressed another button on her walker as Snively locked on and fired a few laser blasts. The jet intake on the front of the Passion on the front of the nozzle started to glow. Snively's eyes widened in surprise. He tried to get out of the way, but was too late. The Power Laser fired, hitting Snively. The massive laser sliced through his defenses, causing massive damage to the Snivel Walker. He screamed and pulled out of the beam, somehow still active! It seemed he had really done a number on the walker to make it strong enough to resist the Power Laser. He used the same strategy Amy had, jumping and hovering over the laser and trying to get behind Amy. However, as he had started to land, Amy spun the Passion around, giving him another dose of the Power Laser at close range. He tried to get away, but since he was already so close, she just kept turning to keep him in the full focus of the beam. Finally, she cut the beam off. Snively's walker creaked and moaned. Smoke was starting to seep from some of the joints. Snively hacked on the smoke, growled, and charged forward, slamming into the Passion. They both fired their cannons and laser blasters at close range, damaging the conditions of their respective vehicles even further. As Snively frantically tried to fire again, Amy and Angel fired all their long-range weapons at once, the cannon, the Laser Blaster, the Rocket Launcher, and the Power Laser. The four attacks hit Snively for incredible damage. His walker quaked and fell to the ground, smoking. Amy and Angel were triumphant, but it seemed to be a hollow victory. Amy looked down, still crying. "Shadow, I did it." she whispered. Angel suddenly yelped, trying to get Amy's attention. Amy looked up and saw the Snivel Walker was on its feet again! "What? No! I beat you!" Snively laughed, glad his recent upgrade had worked. "Wrong! As you saw before, I've upgraded my walker! Aside from being stronger, I reinforced the armor with titanium! Those attacks of yours hurt a great deal, but not enough to destroy the Snivel Walker!" He pulled out his gun and fired a very precise bullet at the knee joint of the Passion's left leg. Already damaged enough by the battle, the Passion buckled and fell over, the right leg shorting out. Snively came closer, looming over Amy, who had fallen out of her cockpit. He chuckled and brought his gun to bear. "Well Amy, it seems history has repeated itself. You've lost, like you did back on Prison Island. It seems you are destined to fail, my dear." A smile creeped onto his lips. He had been waiting to do this for a long, LONG time. "This time, nothing is going to stop me from killing you. Say hi to your boyfriend for me when you get to the other side, okay?" His finger tightened on the trigger. There was one thing he hadn't counted on, though. Angel was still sitting behind the Laser Blaster. Despite the weird angle she was at, she had locked on to Snively's gun while he had been talking. As he was about to fire, Angel shot a laser blast, striking the gun and causing it to explode right in Snively's hand. He screamed and clutched his right hand, now burnt and blackened beyond recovery, another body part lost to him. However, this time he would not get a chance to replace it with a robotic appendage. Amy stood up, pulling the Piko Piko Hammer from the dimensional pocket. Screaming out a battlecry, she smashed her hammer into the Snivel Walker's left leg. The force of her blow smashed through the reinforced armor and completely destroyed the joints and servos, severing the lower left leg from the rest of the body. Snively wailed as the vehicle toppled over, causing him to fall from his seat. As he grunted and got up, he saw Amy looming over him. She swung the hammer down at him. Snively tried to block it with his metal arm. The powerful blow from Amy's hammer broke the robot arm, severing it at the elbow. It fell to the floor, useless. He gaped. Amy cried out and used her Hammer Whirl, smashing into Snively's chest and sent him hurtling into a wall, breaking his artificial ribs. He yelled in pain. He had never actually been hurt directly in a battle with Shadow or the others; the only damage was caused when his final vehicle blew up, costing him a body part. Amy slowly walked over to him, holding the hammer tightly. Snively looked up, trembling, as the pink hedgehog stood over him. "M-mercy, please." he managed to say, terrified. "Mercy?" she asked coldly. "When have you ever showed mercy, Snively? To your victims, to my friends and me? To Shadow? No, you deserve no mercy, tyrant. And so I will show you none in return." She raised her hammer high. "I promised never to kill a human. I think for you, I'll make an exception." Snively tried to scurry away, but she planted a foot on his chest to hold him down. He met her eyes. There was rage and hatred in them. It terrified him. She brought the hammer down in the most powerful smash she had ever performed. Blood sprayed onto her dress, making it a little redder than before. She dropped the hammer, now soaked with Snively's blood, and walked over to the windows, staring at where the escape pod had exploded. She fell to her knees and began sobbing. Angel fell out of the Laser Blaster seat and limped over to Robotnik, who wasn't dead just yet. She climbed onto his chest and placed her hands around the wound, concentrating. As her healing magic began, the bullet levitated out of the hole, dropping onto the floor. The hole started to seal up. Angel let go, panting, as the wound was sealed up, his liver rapidly healing. Robotnik would be up soon, and able to mourn with the rest of them. Angel got off of Robotnik's chest and limped over to her love, who was still pressed against the window. She touched his shoulder. Devil slowly turned around, his wet eyes staring into her own. They broke down and hugged each other, tears falling to the ground.
And so ends the life of Dr. Snively, a man who will most certainly not be missed. Tune in next time, for the final chapter of the Dark Story.